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13th WardLe Bon Temps Roule/Roppolo residence
13th WardNeville Family Home
13th WardBenny's Bar
13th WardIdris Muhammad's apartment
Mid-CityDixie Taverne
Central CitySandpiper Lounge
GentillyPeaches Records
HollygroveOdyssey Records
UptownThe Boswell Sisters' house
Central CitySoulja Slim mural / Big Man Lounge
View from the pews at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, which inspired Mahalia Jackson throughout her life.
UptownMount Moriah Baptist Church
7th WardJeunes Amis Hall / Equity Hall
7th WardSt. Bernard Public Housing Development
TremeEconomy Hall
American Jazz Quintet group photo from 1987
Central CityHayes' Chicken Shack/Vernon's
TremeCandlelight Lounge/Grease Lounge
7th WardHunter's Field
TremeTreme Community Center
The Dixie Cups performing in 1977: Rosa Lee Hawkins, Joanne Kenney, and Barbara Hawkins.
Central CityCalliope (B.W. Cooper) Public Housing Development
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band at the Glass House in 1982.
Central CityThe Glass House
Earl King on guitar at the Gator Ball in 1980.
Central CityVictor Augustine's Curio Shop
TremeMunicipal Auditorium
TremeGlobe Hall
TremeSan Jacinto Club
TremeCaldonia Inn
TremeTreme's Petit Jazz Museum
Wanda Rouzan in 2006. As part of the Rouzan Sisters (which included Laura and Barbara Rouzan), she cut "Men of War" for Frisco Records, a song about a loved one being sent to fight in Vietnam.
TremeFrisco Records Office
Upper 9th WardDonald Harrison, Sr. Museum
Treme-LafitteLafitte Public Housing Development
Alex Chilton fronting a Big Star reunion show in London in 2009.
TremeAlex Chilton's Apartment
7th WardLeroy Jones' Garage
From 2010, members of the Hot 8 Brass Band, including leader Bennie Pete on sousaphone, outside of the Autocrat Club.
7th WardThe Autocrat Club
Enslaved people dancing in Congo Square
TremeCongo Square
Patsy Vidalia and Bobby Marchanonstage at the Dew Drop.
Central CityDew Drop Inn
Looking down Basin Street in Storyville. The famous madams had houses in a line just beyond Tom Anderson’s on the corner.
TremeStoryville
Central CityMagnolia (C.J. Peete) Public Housing Development
UptownTipitina's
Central Business DistrictEagle Saloon / Odd Fellows and Masonic Hall
The Astoria in 1956.
Central Business DistrictAstoria Hotel
7th WardErnie K-Doe's Mother-in-Law Lounge
Benny Spellman on stage
UptownValencia Hall
Baby Dolls posing in New Orleans 1942
TremeBackstreet Cultural Museum
A.J. Piron (far right) and his band at a gig at Spanish Fort.
LakefrontSpanish Fort
Monk Boudreaux
Central CityH&R Bar
Dooky Chase sign in 2012
TremeDooky Chase Restaurant
Mid-CityGermania Hall
Central CityBooker T. Washington High School Auditorium
Mural of Buddy Bolden and band painted in 2018 by Brandan "BMike" Odums seen here in 2019.
Central Business DistrictLittle Gem Saloon and Buddy Bolden Mural
Piron Williams Band: Clarence Williams seated in front; behind him from left to right are Ernest Trepagnier, drums; Armand Piron, violin; Tom Benton, banjo; Johnny St. Cyr, banjo; standing in the back, from left to right, are Jimmy Noone, clarinet; William "Baba" Ridgley, trombone; Oscar Celestin, cornet; and John Lindsay, bass.
Central Business DistrictRed Onion
TremeWWOZ Treehouse Studio
The sign that once hung on Joe's Cozy Corner has migrated into the Bywater, where it adorned a front yard in 2012.
TremeJoe's Cozy Corner
Jazz Funeral led by the Tambourine & Fan Club, circa 1977.
TremeCharbonnet-Labat-Glapion Funeral Home
A brass band plays in Buster Holmes' bar and restaurant
French QuarterBuster Holmes’ Bar and Restaurant
The only known photograph of Charles "Buddy" Bolden. He is standing next to the string bass.
Gert TownLincoln and Johnson Parks
Inseparable Friends Hall in 2017. Charbonnet-Labat-Glapion Funeral Home at the Claiborne overpass in the background.
TremeSociety of Inseparable Friends Hall
Ruins of Lincoln Beach in 2006.
New Orleans EastLincoln Beach
Alvin "Red" Tyler.
Central CityMason's Las Vegas Strip
Tuba Fats Square painted mural in 2012
TremeTuba Fats Square
French QuarterDixie's Bar of Music
Central CityA.L. Davis Park (aka Shakespeare Park)
Eddie Bo at his club Check Your Bucket in New Orleans, 2004.
Warehouse DistrictGrunewald School of Music
Jesuit alumnus Harry Connick, Jr. on stage with one of his piano teachers, the virtuoso James Booker.
Mid-CityJesuit High School
Central Business DistrictOne Stop Record Shop
View of Gallatin Street in the 1930s, shortly before demolition.
French QuarterGallatin Street
WWOZ Cuttin' Class series with Dolores T. Aaron Academy, led by Andy Bower in studio on April 18, 2017.
French QuarterWWOZ French Market Studio
French QuarterIvanhoe
Upper 9th WardMardi Gras Bowl
ILA Hall concert poster from 2003.
Central CityI.L.A. Hall